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- Most often can be found overseeing marriages in Viva Las Vegas, the Elvis Impersonator (a subtype of Celebrity Impersonator) usually dresses and acts like late era Elvis Presley: portly, with an exaggerated pompadour hairdo, wearing a ridiculously pimped out jacket, and fond of saying "thankyouyewverymuch". A subtrope of this appears a lot in Dubs of Japanese media. Because the pompadour harido is associated with street punks in Japan, a lot of minor or comedic villains get that hairstyle. In the process of dubbing, they're often turned into the only thing westerners associate with pompadours.
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- Most often can be found overseeing marriages in Viva Las Vegas, the Elvis Impersonator (a subtype of Celebrity Impersonator) usually dresses and acts like late era Elvis Presley: portly, with an exaggerated pompadour hairdo, wearing a ridiculously pimped out jacket, and fond of saying "thankyouyewverymuch". A subtrope of this appears a lot in Dubs of Japanese media. Because the pompadour harido is associated with street punks in Japan, a lot of minor or comedic villains get that hairstyle. In the process of dubbing, they're often turned into the only thing westerners associate with pompadours. The Other Wiki lists three types of Elvis impersonators -- Look-alikes, sound-alikes, and combinations -- who tend to be either professionals, amateurs, Just for Fun types, or those who do their routines for Comedy and/or Parody. They also state that the earliest known Elvis impersonator was a Canadian teenager who started making stage appearances in 1956. Elvish Presley is the totally logical subtrope where the impersonater is an elf. Examples of Elvis Impersonator include:
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